Passenger has heart attack, prompts emergency landing of Qantas

Published on : Friday, August 18, 2017

A Qantas plane that was travelling to Dallas from Sydney had to make an emergency landing after one of its passengers required urgent medical attention.

Emergency services interacted with the aircraft’s authorities when it arrived in Phoenix in Arizona around 5 p.m., local time on Thursday, as per the account of a Qantas spokesman who mentioned it to a news media.

She said that Qantas flight QF7 was travelling to Dallas Fort Worth from Sydney adding that it had to be diverted to Phoenix on account of a medical emergency.

The passenger seemed to have had a heart attack suddenly, on board the flight.

Then, the flight took off around 7 p.m. local time. It arrived at Dallas Fort Worth at 10 p.m. local time.